Fractional Recruiting Jobs in Renton, WA (NOW HIRING)

About Us

Avante is on a mission to transform how self-funded employers manage their benefits and HR operations. Our AI-powered SaaS platform helps employers shift from reactive firefighting to strategic planning, while providing employees with the guidance they need to truly understand and maximize their benefits.

Employee benefits represent the second-largest expense for most businesses, yet the landscape is fragmented, complex, and difficult to navigate. Avante unifies fragmented benefits data and provides AI-driven insights that help employers control costs while delivering an exceptional employee experience.

We are based in Seattle with an in-office culture (4 days a week) to drive community, collaboration, and ideation.

We are hiring our first in-house recruiter at the inflection point where hiring stops being something that the founding team can absorb part-time. The next twelve months are the most active hiring stretch in Avante's history, and the person in this seat will set the bar for every hire that follows.

In any given month you will be running a variety of key searches across engineering, GTM, operations and customer-facing roles. None of these searches look the same. The expectation is that you can run all of them at once, either directly or via oversight of external recruiting partners.

This role owns the entire recruiting machine end-to-end. You will not be a coordinator with a sourcer title. You will sit in the room when we decide what bar we're hiring against, push back on hiring managers when their calibration drifts, and own the offer conversation when it's hard. Recruiting at Avante is a senior operator job, and we're going to treat it like one.

You will also be the first recruiter in the building who has to figure out what hiring looks like when the company is itself an AI agent platform. We expect you to use the same tools we build, push us on which steps of the funnel should be agents instead of people, and have an opinion about what changes when half the candidates you screen are also using AI to apply. 

• 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience at a high-growth startup or adjacent recruiting agency, ideally one that scaled from under 50 to several hundred people. Bonus point if in enterprise Saas or AI-native product company. You have personally closed across engineering, GTM, and ops, not just one function.

• A program manager at heart. You build process, hold people to it, and keep things moving without being asked twice.

• Comfortable owning the whole problem. You source when sourcing is the bottleneck, coach hiring managers when calibration is the bottleneck, and write the offer letter when the offer is the bottleneck.

• Sharp judgment on people. You can spot a strong operator in a 20-minute screen and tell the difference between a talker and a doer.

• Low ego, high bias for action. You'd rather close a great candidate today than perfect a process for next quarter.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a clean intake doc, sell the company to a skeptical senior candidate, and push back on a hiring manager who is grading on the wrong rubric.

• Based in (or willing to relocate to) the Seattle area; this role is on-site.

• Competitive base salary, and meaningful early-stage equity.

• Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

• A seat at the table. You will work directly with the CEO and the executive team. Recruiting decisions are made in the room, not relayed through layers.

• Ownership of the function. You are not joining a team of recruiters; you are starting it. Eventually, you will help scope and hire the next people on it.

• Frontier work. Avante is building with AI agents that didn't exist three months ago. Your hiring process will use the same tools we build.